Tag: aloha aina
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Complicit in colonial crimes
The more I thought about it this weekend, the more it became clearer, I had just barely saved a disastrous situation that may have a had a domino effect on any of my further work. That student newspaper article I mentioned in the previous media bias post, it was a train-wreck that had my name…
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Facing Future – Reclaiming Past
“If just for a day our king and queen Would visit all these islands and saw everything How would they feel about the changes of our land Could you just imagine if they were around And saw highways on their sacred grounds How would they feel about this modern city life? Tears would come from…
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Reflections on 5 weeks in Hawai’i
And now … back in Berlin. Down to freezing point on some days this week, missing my brand-new gloves I bought in August, but with a second-hand cozy jacket bought on my first day back. Since my jet lag wasn’t over as fast as I thought it was the first 3 days, I was up…
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Back in the 808
Right now I’m back in Hawai’i visiting, introducing myself and my proposed project to the community it concerns, and feeling the motivation and inspiration by many to ease me into this work when I return to Berlin. It’s a rainy day in Mānoa with the effects of all the hurricanes (Kilo, Ignacio, Jimena) passing by…
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Critical Ethnic Studies Association Journal Blog post from August 10, 2015
The spaces between “us” (inclusive) and “them” – aloha ‛āina is a kākou thing Critical Ethnic Studies Journal launched a blog in August and the first series was on Mauna Kea. I feel honoured to be featured as the second post on the new blog. There is always the question of positioning and voice (and…
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Q&A on IMPOLITIKAL from August 3, 2015
Q&A | Karin Louise Hermes on Why Hawaiians are Protesting a 30M Telescope Finally finding the time to repost the Q&A Evelyn Marsters did with me in late July on my insider/outsider role in the #WeAreMaunaKea movement. On July 31, 7 people were arrested during an around-the-clock vigil opposing the planned Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) astronomical observatory…
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Confronting the haole attitude towards aloha ‘āina
I. I will start off by saying I’m not indigenous to the islands, I’m not born and raised in Hawai‘i, I’m not even residing there right now, but on the pro-TMT side, it is those that are as well neither Kanaka Maoli nor long-term residents of Hawai‘i, who are the most self-righteous in their arguments…
Metaphors & Metaphysics 